Volume : 2, Issue : 9, September - 2013

Hydrocarbon Pneumonia Following Diesel Siphonage

Adesh Kumar, Ashish Kumar Gupta, Mohd Haroon Khan

Abstract :

In our country, siphoning of diesel/petrol from fuel tanks is a common practice. We describe a 60–year–old farmer, who accidentally aspirated fuel while siphoning from his generator. A diagnosis of diesel induced aspiration pneumonia was confirmed by the presence of foam cells on onchial biopsy. The patient showed gradual recovery with the symptomatic therapy. Diesel aspiration leading to bilateral pneumonitis is yet to be reported in our country.